The Client as Helper: A Means to Promote Psychological Growth.

Skovholt, Thomas M.

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Publication Date: 1974

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The Client as Helper: A Means to Promote Psychological Growth

Skovholt, Thomas M.

Counseling Psychologist, 4, 3, 58-62, 74

This paper describes the evolution of the helper therapy principle into a popular idea in community psychology and argues for the increased use of helping by the client as a therapeutic tool. Further, the paper attempts to explain the helper therapy principle by use of current psychological theory and research. (Author)

Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Programs, Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Personality Theories, Psychoeducational Methods, Reinforcement, Social Exchange Theory

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